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Correct me if I'm wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I'm a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory (e.g. private instances or servers with no users). Are there any "balancers" to utilize these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with such fast growth?

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[โ€“] claymedia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an interesting idea. Maybe you could even choose the "default subs" for your instance from across lemmy.

[โ€“] solidarity@suguha.net 8 points 1 year ago

That would be awesome I think! I am toying with the idea of building a proper instance, put my devops skills to use, but at the same time, few features missing!